John Hughes (1796 - 1890)

Born 14 Jan 1796 in Harrison County, Va

Ancestors

Died 1890 at about age 93 in Licking County, Ohio

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Biography

Jonathan was an infant when his father reached the mouth of the Licking River in 1797. In 1798, the family removed to the "Bowling Green". He remained in Licking County and, after his father was widowed, he took his aged father into his home.

Sources

• McWhorter, Lucullus Virgil, William Elsey Connelley, and J. P. MacLean. The border settlers of northwestern Virginia, from 1768 to 1795: embracing the life of Jesse Hughes and other noted scouts of the great woods of the trans-Allegheny: with notes and illustrative anecdotes. Baltimore, MD: Reprinted for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Pub. Co., 2004. Pages 221-244

• Mother's find a grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=100526153

• Mother's Genealogy page: http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/r/o/z/Janis-C-Rozich/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0052.html
• "History of Licking County: It's Past and Present" Pg 215.

• McWhorter, Lucullus Virgil, William Elsey Connelley, and J. P. MacLean. The border settlers of northwestern Virginia, from 1768 to 1795: embracing the life of Jesse Hughes and other noted scouts of the great woods of the trans-Allegheny: with notes and illustrative anecdotes. Baltimore, MD: Reprinted for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Pub. Co., 2004. Pages 221-244

• https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=64372856

• Family tree of people of importance to the hacker's creek area (work done by Don Norman): https://hackerscreek.com/norman/HUGHES/WILLIAM.htm